WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from December 13, 2024

Listener comments!
	🎭 6:56pm TonyR: Finally here before curtain.
	🎭 7:02pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy" Look, if you think that Vulcan mating practices are "logical," you are just deluding yourself.
	🎭 7:03pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy" I haven't heard this one in decades! Wow, not just one song, Nimoy recorded a whole album! Fascinating. :-)
	🎭 7:03pm TonyR: As did Shatner
	🎭 7:03pm WR: A Star Trek jukebox musical?
	🎭 7:05pm Dan S: Happy Friday the 13th, Bronwyn and fellow AJH listeners!
	🎭 7:06pm Dan S: This show is unique in many ways. Most of them are good.
	7:06pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Jazz Handy people!
	🎭 7:06pm TonyR: I still remember the day I discovered that Bert Convy is on the OBC recoreding of "Cabaret".
	🎭 7:07pm Dan S: Will we go directly from Nimoy to Shatner? Like common people?
	7:07pm Webhamster Henry: the "Golden Throats" series was a WFMU Catalog fave!
	🎭 7:07pm TonyR: What DO the simple folk do?
	7:09pm Webhamster Henry: Obligatory Nimoy - Quinto ad: www.youtube.com...
	🎭 7:09pm TonyR: Bah. In my day, you had to do it all: sing, dance, act. Comedy, romance, tragedy.
	🎭 7:10pm WR: I was surprised when I first found out that Hugh Jackman is an accomplished singer.
	🎭 7:11pm Dan S: And a very campy Joker Romero was.
	🎭 7:12pm TonyR: ↳ WR @7:10 Not as surprising as portraying Peter Allen.
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: By coincidence, I have recently retrieved the Christmas album by character actor Walter Brennan for the season. It's paired with his record Old Rivers, which contains the title song, which was kind of a hit. He cannot sing a note, btw.
	🎭 7:13pm TonyR: La breesa...... cries Mary.
	7:18pm Listener Gregory: Bronwyn, how would you classify Rex Harrison in this regard? He’s starred in at least two musicals but is really not a singer.
	🎭 7:18pm TonyR: ↳ TonyR @7:12 ...or being Australian.
	🎭 7:19pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "House of Flowers" by "Billy Dee Williams" This guy's singing voice was pretty good, IMHO.
	🎭 7:21pm TonyR: Tell me Joyce DeWitt never made an album.
	🎭 7:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "One Life to Live" by "Nichelle Nichols" I didn't know that Lt. Uhura had recorded any songs! Her voice is better than Nimoy's or Shatner's!
	🎭 7:23pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "One Life to Live" by "Nichelle Nichols" Though she kind of faltered on that last high note.
	🎭 7:24pm TonyR: I was gonna ask about Nichelle when Nimoy got played. Her classic scene from "Truck Turner" is no longer available on YouTube unedited. Trigger alert. "And those two bitches who left.. They better learn to sell pussy in Iceland, because if I ever see them, I'm gonna cut their fucking throats. Here, we are family." "And Raquel, take that fucking jacket off."
	🎭 7:25pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Theme from Cyrano/Mr. Tambourine Man" by "William... Hmm, Shatner doing a British accent! I like these lyrics.
	7:27pm Listener Gregory: This Shatner is very special!
	7:27pm Webhamster Henry: BTW, Happy 99th to Dick Van Dyke!
	🎭 7:28pm TonyR: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:27 He astarted out a hoofer.
	7:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:27 He had to evacuate his house in Malibu because of the wildfire!
	7:28pm Listener Gregory: The Shatner keeps getting better!
	🎭 7:29pm Dan S: Shatner's greatest musical virtue was his sense of humor. He didn't take himself too seriously, as this cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man" shows.
	🎭 7:29pm TonyR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:28 If you mean "sounds crazier and crazier", sure.
	7:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dan S @7:29 Shatner sings O Canada: www.youtube.com...
	🎭 7:31pm TonyR: "Hooker's a good cop!!"
	7:33pm ironybread: Human Being here, looking for laughs. It's written into my DNA
	🎭 7:36pm WR: ↳ Song: "House of Flowers" by "Billy Dee Williams" William December Williams Jr
	🎭 7:43pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "to keep my love alive" by "Honor Blackman" A great song that even mediocre semi-singing can't ruin. Also, I like the photo that goes with it.
	7:45pm Listener Gregory: Jack Webb! What genius heard him and thought, “He needs to make an album!”?
	🎭 7:46pm Dan S: Since the essence of acting is pretending to be someone/something you aren't, it isn't totally illogical that actors should try their hand at singing.
	🎭 7:46pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dan S @7:43 I think it is an allusion to Goldfinger.
	7:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "I Get Along Without You Very Well" by "Dirk Bogarde" Lousy picture of the very handsome Dirk Bogarde.
	🎭 7:48pm Dan S: But Jerry Lewis and Jack Webb singing? That's beyond the pale.
	7:50pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "True Love" by "Richard Chamberlain" This was written for "High Society", the movie musical based on "The Philadelphia Story"
	🎭 7:54pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Feeling Good" by "Eddie Albert" He also sang the theme song for his TV series "Green Acres." Along with his co-star Eva Gabor.
	🎭 7:55pm Dan S: ↳ Dan S @7:54 I think his voice worked better for that light-hearted comedic song than for this one.
	7:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Feeling Good" by "Eddie Albert" He was also Ali Hakim "The Persian" peddler in the movie "Oklahoma".
	8:01pm Dean: Killer ensemble on this Cybill Shepherd album, probably in part a function of the label. Joey Baron on drums, for instance.
	8:01pm Listener Gregory: I vaguely remember Cyril Shepard doing the late-night show circuit to promote her career as a singer. Or was it all just a dream?
	🎭 8:03pm Dan S: So, Bronwyn, I know you've done some singing at the WFMU Hoof & Mouth Sinfonia. Can we expect an album from you anytime soon?
	🎭 8:04pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Do It Again" by "Cybill Shepherd" It's understated, but doesn't sound terrible to me.
	8:05pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @8:03 haha not likely, im a soprano and no one likes us anymore
	8:07pm Dean: Mezzos all the rage?
	8:08pm Bronwyn Bishop: indeed Laura benanti has a funny song complaining about it
	8:12pm erik/vermont: Wow, Tony Perkins channeling his inner Chet Baker.
	🎭 8:12pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Don't Fence Me In" by "Clint Eastwood" Offer Clint a deal: We won't fence him in if he doesn't record any more songs. LOL
	8:13pm Dean: The man who sings to chairs
	8:15pm Dean: Guilty as charged, I guess. One of my very favorite singers is Conchita Supervia. But then Kiri is transcendent, as was Montserrat Figueras and, perhaps less renowned, Agnes Mellon.
	🎭 8:15pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Ain't Misbehavin'" by "George Burns" Somehow George Burns could do anything and his voice sounds right for it. What a guy!
	8:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Ain't Misbehavin'" by "George Burns" George had a big revival at the end of his life!
	8:17pm Listener Gregory: Great arrangement wasted on George Burns.
	8:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "If You Were the Only Girl" by "Tony Perkins" Tony of course starred in Evening Primrose, Sondheim's TV musical.
	8:17pm erik/vermont: Cybilant Shepherd = beautiful soullessness …
	8:23pm erik/vermont: always enjoyed Eddie Albert’s ‘bohemian hipster’ role in Roman Holiday (1953).
	8:24pm Dean: When Marion lived on Balboa Island we'd navigate our dinghy past his house.
	8:25pm ironybread: "My name is WILLIAM WAYNE. This is...SO unimportant" - drunk John Wayne
	🎭 8:26pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Why Are You Marching, Son?" by "John Wayne" I Ain't A Marching Anymore, to quote Phil Ochs.
	8:27pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Why Are You Marching, Son?" by "John Wayne" this track pairs well with his drunken speech on one of the Celebrities At Their Worst comps.
	8:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "The Ballad of Thunder Road" by "robert mitchum" Mitchum is more famous for his Calypso Album!
	8:30pm Dean: Is this the inspiration for Springsteen's tune?
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: Thank goodness we now have the technology to allow AIs to consummate their relationships.
	🎭 8:33pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:30 Maybe. Did Bruce and Robert ever play a double bill? If so, who was the headliner?
	🎭 8:33pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:32 Isn't progress wonderful?
	🎭 8:34pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Univac and the Humanoid" by "Sheldon Allman" Rather amusing lyrics on this one, at least.
	8:36pm Dean: Gregg, Duane, and Sheldon, RIP bros.
	8:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Univac and the Humanoid" by "Sheldon Allman" A little like my "Theme song", "Not Programmed For Love" wfmu.org...
	8:37pm ironybread: Just curious, did you play that Sheldon Allman from a vinyl copy or from the Essential Media Group CD-R? I have a sudden urge to own that album ;)
	8:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: I pressed play on Spotify lol
	8:39pm ironybread: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:39 HA, good answer!
	8:41pm Dean: RIP, Michael Cole
	8:42pm ironybread: There's no feeling quite like de-virginifying a song on our FMU
	🎭 8:43pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Lady of the Lake" by "Peggy Lipton" As a youngster, I kind of had a crush on Julie from The Mod Squad.
	🎭 8:46pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:39 And what will Spotify say about your musical tastes based on that song selection? What else might it recommend as a result?
	8:48pm wenzo: That was Russel Crowe? His voice really dropped later huh
	🎭 8:48pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I Just Wanna Be Like Marlon Brando" by "Russ Le Roq" Hey, an actor who's a singer AND songwriter. Not a bad song, either, IMO.
	8:48pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @8:46 I play a lot of the stuff I play on this show directly from Spotify, so the ai podcast voices definitely factored all of that in when they made my creepy podcast
	8:49pm Webhamster Henry: haha! Tell Telly what he wants to know!
	🎭 8:50pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Who Loves Ya Baby" by "Telly Savalas" And now, for some reason, I want a lollipop.
	8:50pm Webhamster Henry: This show brings a little bit of Sheena's Jungle Room to the Drummer Station.
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dan S @8:50 "Stavros" was the equivalent of a Web search. "Stavros! Get me the names of all the pimps above 96th street!"
	🎭 8:54pm Dan S: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:50 However, if someone asked me to define a 'theme' for each FMU alternate stream, I'd find it difficult or impossible.
	8:54pm Listener Gregory: When an actor is a bad singer, is it better for them to sing a good song or a new, terrible one? I would vote for the latter. That will push it into camp.
	8:55pm Dean: Billy Katt approaches one of the listener recommendation tracks I'll deliver to Uncle Michael, a track, maybe two, from the Alessi Brothers.
	🎭 8:56pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Toto (Don't It Feel Like Paradise)" by "Lynda Car... This is kind of cute and sweet, and Lynda is a decent singer.
	8:56pm Dean: Oh, wait, it was the Lynda Carter track that reminds me of the Alessis.
	🎭 8:57pm Dan S: Well, this show has been, as Mr. Spock might say, Fascinating. Thanks, Bronwyn!
	8:58pm Dean: My own sense is that these "artists," largely television and screen performers, are already devoid of talent, so I'm not surprised to hear their abysmal vocalizing.
	8:58pm ironybread: Thanks, Bronwyn, that was a swell show!
	8:59pm Dean: Well, you put the lie to my snide remark. Jim Nabors can sing.
	🎭 9:00pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:59 Yes, which you wouldn't guess from his Gomer Pyle speaking voice.
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: I remember Jim Nabors as a staple on variety shows in the 70s (?), and I could never believe that the same guy who was talking about minute ago was now this operatic singer.
	🎭 9:01pm WR: Jim Nabors! Impossible Dream! In the mid 70s I used to air sing to this to prepare for garage rock band performances.
	9:01pm Listener Gregory: Great show, Bronwyn! You broke the mold with this one.
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ WR @9:01 It's like singing scales because you are singing a scale.
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Oh waht fun we had tonight
	🎭 9:03pm WR: Great episode Bronwyn! Thank you!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from December 13, 2024

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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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December 13, 2024: When Actors Sing

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Leonard Nimoy	Highly Illogical "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy"	Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy	Dot	1968	Music & Lyrics: Charles R. Grean & Fred Hertz	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Cesar Romero	The Breeze and I "The Breeze and I" by "Cesar Romero"	Songs By A Latin Lover	Tops Records	1958	Music: Ernesto Lecuona Lyrics: Al Stillman	0:13:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Billy Dee Williams	House of Flowers	Let's Misbehave	Prestige	1961	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Harold Arlen & Truman Capote	0:16:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Brent Spiner	More Than You Know "More Than You Know" by "Brent Spiner"	Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back	Infinite Visions	1991	Music: Vincent Youmans Lyrics: Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu	0:17:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nichelle Nichols	One Life to Live	Down to Earth	Sony Music Entertainment	1967	Music: Kurt Weill Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	0:20:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
William Shatner	Theme from Cyrano/Mr. Tambourine Man	The Transformed Man	Geffen	1968	Music: Don Ralke ("Theme from Cyrano")/Bob Dylan ("Mr. Tambourine Man") Lyrics: Edmond Rostand ("Theme from Cyrano," translated into English by Frank Davenport)/Bob Dylan ("Mr. Tambourine Man")	0:23:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Honor Blackman	to keep my love alive	Everything I've Got	London Records	1964	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart	0:39:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
jack webb	Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?	Just the Tracks, Ma'am: The Warner Bros. Recordings	Rhino Handmade	2000	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II	0:42:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jerry Lewis	Bye Bye Baby "Bye Bye Baby" by "Jerry Lewis"	Just Sings	Geffen Records	1956	Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Leo Robin	0:44:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dirk Bogarde	I Get Along Without You Very Well	Lyrics For Lovers	Decca	1960	Music: Hoagy Carmichael Lyrics: Jane Brown Thompson	0:46:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Richard Chamberlain	True Love "True Love" by "Richard Chamberlain"	Richard Chamberlain Sings	Mgm	1962	Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter	0:48:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eddie Albert	Feeling Good "Feeling Good" by "Eddie Albert"	The Eddie Albert Album	Columbia Records	1966	Music & Lyrics: Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse	0:50:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Cybill Shepherd	Do It Again "Do It Again" by "Cybill Shepherd"	Mad About the Boy	Inner City Records	1980	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Buddy DeSylva	1:02:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Michael Parks	My Melancholy Baby "My Melancholy Baby" by "Michael Parks"	Long Lonesome Highway	MGM Records	1970	Music: Ernie Burnett Lyrics: George A. Norton	1:05:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Perkins	If You Were the Only Girl	Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)/If You Were the Only Girl	Epic	1956	Music: Nat D. Ayer Lyrics: Clifford Grey	1:09:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Clint Eastwood	Don't Fence Me In "Don't Fence Me In" by "Clint Eastwood"	Sings Cowboy Favorites	Cameo Parkway	1962	Music: Cole Porter Lyrics: Robert Fletcher & Cole Porter	1:11:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Burns	Ain't Misbehavin' "Ain't Misbehavin'" by "George Burns"	George Burns in Nashville	Mercury	1980	Music: Fats Waller & Harry Brooks Lyrics: Andy Razaf	1:13:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

John Wayne	Why Are You Marching, Son?	America, Why I Love Her	Rca	1973	Music: It's kind of Battle Hymn of the Republic but kind of isn't? Lyrics: John Mitchum	1:25:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
robert mitchum	The Ballad of Thunder Road	The Ballad of Thunder Road/My Honey's Lovin' Arms	Capitol Records	1958	Music: Jack Marshall Lyrics: Robert Mitchum	1:28:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sheldon Allman	Univac and the Humanoid	Folk Songs for the 21st Century	HiFi Records	1960	Music & Lyrics: Sheldon Allman	1:33:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
burt reynolds	There's a Slight Misunderstanding Between God and Man	Ask Me What I Am	Mercury/Phonogram	1973	Music & Lyrics: Paul Hampton	1:35:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peggy Lipton	Lady of the Lake "Lady of the Lake" by "Peggy Lipton"	Peggy Lipton	Cbs	1968	Music & Lyrics: Carole King & Toni Stern	1:39:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Russ Le Roq	I Just Wanna Be Like Marlon Brando	I Just Wanna Be Like Marlon Brando	Ode Records	1982	Music & Lyrics: Russ Le Roq	1:45:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Telly Savalas	Who Loves Ya Baby "Who Loves Ya Baby" by "Telly Savalas"	Who Loves Ya Baby	MCA Records	1976	Music & Lyrics: Marvin Laird	1:49:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Billy Katt	a girl like you "a girl like you" by "Billy Katt"	Secret Smiles	MCA Records	1982	Music & Lyrics: Eddie Brigati & Felix Cavaliere	1:52:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lynda Carter	Toto (Don't It Feel Like Paradise)	Portrait	Epic Records	1978	Music & Lyrics: Lynda Carter, C. Siller & Bill Cuomo	1:54:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

jim nabors	The Impossible Dream "The Impossible Dream" by "jim nabors"	Jim Nabors Sings Love Me With All Your Heart	Columbia	1966	Music: Mitch Leigh Lyrics: Joe Darion	2:00:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 6:56pm TonyR: Finally here before curtain.
	🎭 7:02pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy" Look, if you think that Vulcan mating practices are "logical," you are just deluding yourself.
	🎭 7:03pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Highly Illogical" by "Leonard Nimoy" I haven't heard this one in decades! Wow, not just one song, Nimoy recorded a whole album! Fascinating. :-)
	🎭 7:03pm TonyR: As did Shatner
	🎭 7:03pm WR: A Star Trek jukebox musical?
	🎭 7:05pm Dan S: Happy Friday the 13th, Bronwyn and fellow AJH listeners!
	🎭 7:06pm Dan S: This show is unique in many ways. Most of them are good.
	7:06pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Jazz Handy people!
	🎭 7:06pm TonyR: I still remember the day I discovered that Bert Convy is on the OBC recoreding of "Cabaret".
	🎭 7:07pm Dan S: Will we go directly from Nimoy to Shatner? Like common people?
	7:07pm Webhamster Henry: the "Golden Throats" series was a WFMU Catalog fave!
	🎭 7:07pm TonyR: What DO the simple folk do?
	7:09pm Webhamster Henry: Obligatory Nimoy - Quinto ad: www.youtube.com...
	🎭 7:09pm TonyR: Bah. In my day, you had to do it all: sing, dance, act. Comedy, romance, tragedy.
	🎭 7:10pm WR: I was surprised when I first found out that Hugh Jackman is an accomplished singer.
	🎭 7:11pm Dan S: And a very campy Joker Romero was.
	🎭 7:12pm TonyR: ↳ WR @7:10 Not as surprising as portraying Peter Allen.
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: By coincidence, I have recently retrieved the Christmas album by character actor Walter Brennan for the season. It's paired with his record Old Rivers, which contains the title song, which was kind of a hit. He cannot sing a note, btw.
	🎭 7:13pm TonyR: La breesa...... cries Mary.
	7:18pm Listener Gregory: Bronwyn, how would you classify Rex Harrison in this regard? He’s starred in at least two musicals but is really not a singer.
	🎭 7:18pm TonyR: ↳ TonyR @7:12 ...or being Australian.
	🎭 7:19pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "House of Flowers" by "Billy Dee Williams" This guy's singing voice was pretty good, IMHO.
	🎭 7:21pm TonyR: Tell me Joyce DeWitt never made an album.
	🎭 7:22pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "One Life to Live" by "Nichelle Nichols" I didn't know that Lt. Uhura had recorded any songs! Her voice is better than Nimoy's or Shatner's!
	🎭 7:23pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "One Life to Live" by "Nichelle Nichols" Though she kind of faltered on that last high note.
	🎭 7:24pm TonyR: I was gonna ask about Nichelle when Nimoy got played. Her classic scene from "Truck Turner" is no longer available on YouTube unedited. Trigger alert. "And those two bitches who left.. They better learn to sell pussy in Iceland, because if I ever see them, I'm gonna cut their fucking throats. Here, we are family." "And Raquel, take that fucking jacket off."
	🎭 7:25pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Theme from Cyrano/Mr. Tambourine Man" by "William... Hmm, Shatner doing a British accent! I like these lyrics.
	7:27pm Listener Gregory: This Shatner is very special!
	7:27pm Webhamster Henry: BTW, Happy 99th to Dick Van Dyke!
	🎭 7:28pm TonyR: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:27 He astarted out a hoofer.
	7:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:27 He had to evacuate his house in Malibu because of the wildfire!
	7:28pm Listener Gregory: The Shatner keeps getting better!
	🎭 7:29pm Dan S: Shatner's greatest musical virtue was his sense of humor. He didn't take himself too seriously, as this cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man" shows.
	🎭 7:29pm TonyR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:28 If you mean "sounds crazier and crazier", sure.
	7:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dan S @7:29 Shatner sings O Canada: www.youtube.com...
	🎭 7:31pm TonyR: "Hooker's a good cop!!"
	7:33pm ironybread: Human Being here, looking for laughs. It's written into my DNA
	🎭 7:36pm WR: ↳ Song: "House of Flowers" by "Billy Dee Williams" William December Williams Jr
	🎭 7:43pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "to keep my love alive" by "Honor Blackman" A great song that even mediocre semi-singing can't ruin. Also, I like the photo that goes with it.
	7:45pm Listener Gregory: Jack Webb! What genius heard him and thought, “He needs to make an album!”?
	🎭 7:46pm Dan S: Since the essence of acting is pretending to be someone/something you aren't, it isn't totally illogical that actors should try their hand at singing.
	🎭 7:46pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Dan S @7:43 I think it is an allusion to Goldfinger.
	7:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "I Get Along Without You Very Well" by "Dirk Bogarde" Lousy picture of the very handsome Dirk Bogarde.
	🎭 7:48pm Dan S: But Jerry Lewis and Jack Webb singing? That's beyond the pale.
	7:50pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "True Love" by "Richard Chamberlain" This was written for "High Society", the movie musical based on "The Philadelphia Story"
	🎭 7:54pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Feeling Good" by "Eddie Albert" He also sang the theme song for his TV series "Green Acres." Along with his co-star Eva Gabor.
	🎭 7:55pm Dan S: ↳ Dan S @7:54 I think his voice worked better for that light-hearted comedic song than for this one.
	7:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Feeling Good" by "Eddie Albert" He was also Ali Hakim "The Persian" peddler in the movie "Oklahoma".
	8:01pm Dean: Killer ensemble on this Cybill Shepherd album, probably in part a function of the label. Joey Baron on drums, for instance.
	8:01pm Listener Gregory: I vaguely remember Cyril Shepard doing the late-night show circuit to promote her career as a singer. Or was it all just a dream?
	🎭 8:03pm Dan S: So, Bronwyn, I know you've done some singing at the WFMU Hoof & Mouth Sinfonia. Can we expect an album from you anytime soon?
	🎭 8:04pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Do It Again" by "Cybill Shepherd" It's understated, but doesn't sound terrible to me.
	8:05pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @8:03 haha not likely, im a soprano and no one likes us anymore
	8:07pm Dean: Mezzos all the rage?
	8:08pm Bronwyn Bishop: indeed Laura benanti has a funny song complaining about it
	8:12pm erik/vermont: Wow, Tony Perkins channeling his inner Chet Baker.
	🎭 8:12pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Don't Fence Me In" by "Clint Eastwood" Offer Clint a deal: We won't fence him in if he doesn't record any more songs. LOL
	8:13pm Dean: The man who sings to chairs
	8:15pm Dean: Guilty as charged, I guess. One of my very favorite singers is Conchita Supervia. But then Kiri is transcendent, as was Montserrat Figueras and, perhaps less renowned, Agnes Mellon.
	🎭 8:15pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Ain't Misbehavin'" by "George Burns" Somehow George Burns could do anything and his voice sounds right for it. What a guy!
	8:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Ain't Misbehavin'" by "George Burns" George had a big revival at the end of his life!
	8:17pm Listener Gregory: Great arrangement wasted on George Burns.
	8:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "If You Were the Only Girl" by "Tony Perkins" Tony of course starred in Evening Primrose, Sondheim's TV musical.
	8:17pm erik/vermont: Cybilant Shepherd = beautiful soullessness …
	8:23pm erik/vermont: always enjoyed Eddie Albert’s ‘bohemian hipster’ role in Roman Holiday (1953).
	8:24pm Dean: When Marion lived on Balboa Island we'd navigate our dinghy past his house.
	8:25pm ironybread: "My name is WILLIAM WAYNE. This is...SO unimportant" - drunk John Wayne
	🎭 8:26pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Why Are You Marching, Son?" by "John Wayne" I Ain't A Marching Anymore, to quote Phil Ochs.
	8:27pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Why Are You Marching, Son?" by "John Wayne" this track pairs well with his drunken speech on one of the Celebrities At Their Worst comps.
	8:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "The Ballad of Thunder Road" by "robert mitchum" Mitchum is more famous for his Calypso Album!
	8:30pm Dean: Is this the inspiration for Springsteen's tune?
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: Thank goodness we now have the technology to allow AIs to consummate their relationships.
	🎭 8:33pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:30 Maybe. Did Bruce and Robert ever play a double bill? If so, who was the headliner?
	🎭 8:33pm Dan S: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:32 Isn't progress wonderful?
	🎭 8:34pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Univac and the Humanoid" by "Sheldon Allman" Rather amusing lyrics on this one, at least.
	8:36pm Dean: Gregg, Duane, and Sheldon, RIP bros.
	8:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Univac and the Humanoid" by "Sheldon Allman" A little like my "Theme song", "Not Programmed For Love" wfmu.org...
	8:37pm ironybread: Just curious, did you play that Sheldon Allman from a vinyl copy or from the Essential Media Group CD-R? I have a sudden urge to own that album ;)
	8:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: I pressed play on Spotify lol
	8:39pm ironybread: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:39 HA, good answer!
	8:41pm Dean: RIP, Michael Cole
	8:42pm ironybread: There's no feeling quite like de-virginifying a song on our FMU
	🎭 8:43pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Lady of the Lake" by "Peggy Lipton" As a youngster, I kind of had a crush on Julie from The Mod Squad.
	🎭 8:46pm Dan S: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:39 And what will Spotify say about your musical tastes based on that song selection? What else might it recommend as a result?
	8:48pm wenzo: That was Russel Crowe? His voice really dropped later huh
	🎭 8:48pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I Just Wanna Be Like Marlon Brando" by "Russ Le Roq" Hey, an actor who's a singer AND songwriter. Not a bad song, either, IMO.
	8:48pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dan S @8:46 I play a lot of the stuff I play on this show directly from Spotify, so the ai podcast voices definitely factored all of that in when they made my creepy podcast
	8:49pm Webhamster Henry: haha! Tell Telly what he wants to know!
	🎭 8:50pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Who Loves Ya Baby" by "Telly Savalas" And now, for some reason, I want a lollipop.
	8:50pm Webhamster Henry: This show brings a little bit of Sheena's Jungle Room to the Drummer Station.
	8:52pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dan S @8:50 "Stavros" was the equivalent of a Web search. "Stavros! Get me the names of all the pimps above 96th street!"
	🎭 8:54pm Dan S: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:50 However, if someone asked me to define a 'theme' for each FMU alternate stream, I'd find it difficult or impossible.
	8:54pm Listener Gregory: When an actor is a bad singer, is it better for them to sing a good song or a new, terrible one? I would vote for the latter. That will push it into camp.
	8:55pm Dean: Billy Katt approaches one of the listener recommendation tracks I'll deliver to Uncle Michael, a track, maybe two, from the Alessi Brothers.
	🎭 8:56pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Toto (Don't It Feel Like Paradise)" by "Lynda Car... This is kind of cute and sweet, and Lynda is a decent singer.
	8:56pm Dean: Oh, wait, it was the Lynda Carter track that reminds me of the Alessis.
	🎭 8:57pm Dan S: Well, this show has been, as Mr. Spock might say, Fascinating. Thanks, Bronwyn!
	8:58pm Dean: My own sense is that these "artists," largely television and screen performers, are already devoid of talent, so I'm not surprised to hear their abysmal vocalizing.
	8:58pm ironybread: Thanks, Bronwyn, that was a swell show!
	8:59pm Dean: Well, you put the lie to my snide remark. Jim Nabors can sing.
	🎭 9:00pm Dan S: ↳ Dean @8:59 Yes, which you wouldn't guess from his Gomer Pyle speaking voice.
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: I remember Jim Nabors as a staple on variety shows in the 70s (?), and I could never believe that the same guy who was talking about minute ago was now this operatic singer.
	🎭 9:01pm WR: Jim Nabors! Impossible Dream! In the mid 70s I used to air sing to this to prepare for garage rock band performances.
	9:01pm Listener Gregory: Great show, Bronwyn! You broke the mold with this one.
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ WR @9:01 It's like singing scales because you are singing a scale.
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Oh waht fun we had tonight
	🎭 9:03pm WR: Great episode Bronwyn! Thank you!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from December 13, 2024

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